Individual Sushi Salads

My kids all love sushi. To them, having sushi as an appetizer Shabbos lunch is a real luxury. While sushi is a fan favorite, I don’t feel that it has enough nutritional value as it is mostly rice. Furthermore, sushi rolls do not stay fresh enough from Friday until Shabbos lunch to make for an appetizing appetizer.

So, I have been preparing individual sushi salads as a Shabbos lunch appetizer, instead.

And, sushi salads eliminate most of the fussiness of rolling sushi. I can choose the proportions of each element in the sushi salad, favoring more vegetables and fish than rice and nori. The elements of the sushi salad can all be prepared in advance. Furthermore, they are all simple ingredients that I can use in different ways for the Friday night Shabbos dinner. And, best of all, once assembled on Shabbos morning, the individual sushi salad ingredients stay perfectly fresh, simply delicious and gorgeous until ready to serve.